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“Now Deval and I, we go back a little ways, so I’m a little biased here,” Obama said at a rally for Patrick inside the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. “But the reason I came today isn’t just because Deval has been there for me as a friend; it’s because he continues to inspire me as a leader.”

Obama and Patrick’s affection for each other was on full display Saturday.

“In our work in our journey, we are not alone: We have a partner in the White House,” Patrick said during a rousing speech in which he introduced Obama as “the leader of the free world.”

The two embraced several times and chatted for a few moments on stage as the crowd cheered.

“I’ve been campaigning for a lot of folks. And sometimes you get used to hearing politicians speak. Occasionally, I gotta admit, I’ll be back there on the BlackBerry,” Obama said. “But when Deval speaks, I listen.”

Comparisons between Obama and Patrick are often drawn: Two of the most prominent African-American politicians in the country, they both ran as change candidates at pivotal political moments. They share Chicago roots and key political advisers: Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe, and senior White House adviser David Axelrod, who was in Boston with Patrick on Friday and Saturday.

Now the two leaders are out on the campaign trail offering voters the same arguments for sticking with them as their popularity sags.

“To paraphrase a friend of mine, Deval Patrick, up in Massachusetts,” Obama said at a Democratic fundraiser last month, “the last election was about a changing of the guard. This election is about guarding the change.”

If there’s a lesson for Obama in Patrick’s race, it may not be an inspiring one.

“We have a lot of people hurting, really hurting here in Massachusetts and in Boston,” said Ray Flynn, the former three-term mayor of Boston. “And so Barack Obama, you know, it’s on his watch. Will we hold Deval Patrick responsible for that? I don’t think so. I think it’s a national situation.”

“How you go into an election with those people unhappy about what is happening in America and tell them to stay the course?” Flynn added. “That’s a tough one.”

One 82-year-old lady loves Obama and she may have a very good point. She says that Obama is amazing, and is rebuilding the American dream! She gives us an entirely new slant on the "amazing" job Obama is doing, and she says that she will thank God for the President. Keep reading for her additional comments and an explanation.

When discussing Obama, she says:

1. Obama destroyed the Clinton Political Machine, driving a stake through the heart of Hillary's presidential aspirations - something no Republican was ever able to do.

3. Obama is destroying the Democratic Party before our eyes! Dennis Moore had never lost a race. Evan Bayh had never lost a race. Byron Dorgan had never lost a race. Harry Reid - soon to be GONE! These are just a handful of the Democrats whose political careers Obama has destroyed. By the end of 2010, dozens more will be gone. Just think, in December of 2008 the Democrats were on the rise. In the last two election cycles, they had picked up 14 Senate seats and 52 House seats. The press was touting the death of the Conservative Movement and the Republican Party. However, in just one year, Obama put a stop to all of this and will probably give the House - if not the Senate - back to the Republicans.

4. Obama has completely exposed liberals and progressives for what they are. Sadly, every generation seems to need to re-learn the lesson on why they should never actually put liberals in charge. Obama is bringing home the lesson very well:

Liberals tax, borrow and spend.

Liberals won't bring themselves to protect America.

Liberals want to take over the economy.

Liberals think they know what is best for everyone.

Liberals are not happy until they are running YOUR life.

5. Obama has brought more Americans back to conservatism than anyone since Reagan. In one year, he has rejuvenated the Conservative Movement and brought out to the streets millions of freedom loving Americans. Name one other time when you saw your friends and neighbors this interested in taking back America!

6. Obama, with his "amazing leadership," has sparked the greatest period of sales of firearms and ammunition this country has seen. Law abiding citizens have rallied and have provided a "stimulus" to the sporting goods field while other industries have failed, faded, or moved off-shore.

7. In all honesty, one year ago I was more afraid than I have been in my life. Not afraid of the economy, but afraid of the direction our country was going. I thought, Americans have forgotten what this country is all about. My neighbors and friends, even strangers, have proved to me that my lack of confidence in the greatness and wisdom of the American people has been flat wrong.

8. When the American people wake up, no smooth talking teleprompter reader can fool them! Barack Obama has served to wake up these great Americans!

Again, I want to say: "Thank you, Barack Obama!" After all, this is exactly the kind of hope and change we desperately needed!!

November 2nd is HUGE!!!!

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And what a spectacle it was!!! Obama looked and sounded like an absolute MADMAN....a raving lunatic! He was disheveled and incoherent....spewing LIE AFTER LIE! He cannot campaign on his own failed policies so all he does is mercilessly browbeat Bush and the Republicans. He is so unbelieveably UN-Presidential, it's cringeworthy! If Bush had behaved like Obama, he would have been tarred and feathered and exiled to Siberia! Obama's bad behavior transcends politics...his handlers need to put a strait jacket on him and medicate him... heavily! He is insane!

Let us not down play the influence of welfare queens, not only have they created millions of unemployable drug addicts but also a supporting team of law enforcement, hospital, and social workers. One trillion taxpayer dollars are annually spent directly or indirectly taking care of a welfare queens untamed offsprings, blame Mother Nature for giving us this female horn of plenty.

And what a spectacle it was!!! Obama looked and sounded like an absolute MADMAN....a raving lunatic!

Voters see and hear the hypocritical Repubs slobber their way through. Repubs maybe get their lick in especially using foreign money. I mean, who do you think China wants to win the elections. Job stealing Republicans that who.

Um, Carol, are you insane? Of course this race matters. If Mass., falls into GOP hands, it shows the breadth and depth of the GOP "wave."

And there's the pesky little matter of redistricting. If the Statehouse is in GOP hands, the state is more likely to get carved into districts that favor the GOP. That's one of the reasons Obama just spoke for Quinn, in Illinois, this week.

As someone who lives in Massachusetts the race for governor would be much closer without independent candidate Tim Cahill, state treasurer, in the mix. Cahill's campaign has deteriorated into a soap opera with charges and counter charges against Charlie Baker and lawsuits against Cahill's former top aides who left the campaign, as did his running mate for lieutenant governor. Now Cahill is being investigated with allegations that his campaign was working with officials at the treasurer's office to produce favorable TV ads about the state lottery which Cahill runs. The ads have been ordered off the air by Attorney General Martha Coakley who is investigating possible wrong doing by Cahill. Many voters consider Cahill a spoiler. He's staying in the race until the bitter end and he could tip the race for Patrick. It has always been a race between Patrick and Baker. Former Mayor Ray Flynn is correct in the story when describes the average voter who is really hurting. The state is facing a $2 billion deficit in 2011 and its universal healthcare plan, a model for Obamacare, has become a real budget buster. Many voters do feel disenfranchised with both President Obama and Patrick which is why Scott Brown won so big. Patrick is not popular with a lot of voters but he maintains his popularity with a liberal, wealthy base of Democrats. I still believe the race is a toss up. Many voters are fed up with the one party rule of the Democrats in the state which has led to an arrogance of power, a sense of entitlement and even corruption.

I saw the speech, the President was on FIRE! He laid out the choice in this election. Say what you want to say ,I remember september of 08 when the stock market was in a free fall. When 750000 jobs were lost in January of 2009. Those are facts not lies. Republicans are the ones lying. Telling Americans that Obama who came into office to a freefalling economy is responsible. Republicans have been lying since day one of Obama's presidency. They have been playing the race card since day of one of Obama's presidency. Look it up if you want, Pat Buchanan said Republicans don't need minorities to win, they just need to energize enough white people, they can win without a single minority, republicans listened and they adopted that strategy whole heartedly. Of course it is a short-sighted strategy but republicans have wagered that for now that is all they need.

For the citizens of Mass let us hope that the Chosen One's oops I mean President Obama's help is as helpful as it was to Croaker when she lost to Brown. I am a disgusted dem who has absolutly no use for the left wing uber liberals who have hijacked the dem party. Of course I am a citizen of Fl that is likely to get a dem Gov. She is so proud of one of her previous employers Bank of America that she will only say that she was in business or worked at a bank Alex Sink hasn't ued the name of Bank of America in one ad.

I LOVE it when Obama gets heckled. No Drama Obama gets all testy and insulted because the ignorant, unsophisticated ,ungrateful small people dare question Him----the genius with the Harvard degree. How dare they interrupt his good times on the campaign trail. The only time I can stomach watching Obama speech-read is when he gets heckled. The look on his face is priceless.

George Bush did more to fight AIDS, the protesters know that. Maybe it's finally dawning on his supporters that those pretty speeches mean nothing.

@tyler09, you are stretching as usual! RepubliCONS always analyzing/dissecting Obama's every move/reaction! Don't you all have something to do? You just said Obama is uppity without using the word. Once a racist, always a racist. A good n***r is the one that smiles and knows his place or a dead one like MLK!

Worst of all he is a race baiter. President of all the people my foot. He played the race card as a candidate and he's playing it now. Anytime Obama gets in trouble he plays the race card. Too bad you can't see it.

Regarding "African-Americans" (and Kenyan-Hawaiian Obama certainly fits this description more than most), this country has tried them once and found that it didn't like what it found. Somehow the election of Obama and Patrick was supposed to transform the black demographic into something that it wasn't. There is no magic. The black demographic is disproportionately on welfare and criminal, a blight on the country. This will remain the situation even though some blacks on the right hand side of the Bell Curve can function in the society. The sad truth is that the average black IQ is some 15 points below the average white IQ, and there are fewer blacks qualified to do work requiring a greater reasoning ability.

Of course, there are those who dispute the distribution as not being due to natural factors, and maintain that different clusters of people worldwide in different environments had the same mutations, and those mutations were preserved in whatever milieu they occurred. It is a coincidence that blacks of West African descent hold all of the world sprint records. It is a coincidence that most Tibetans have a gene that enables them to function better in the rarefied air in which they live, and a different genetic mutation enables some people native to the Andes to function better in that rarefied air. It is a coincidence that sickle cell anemia, which results from a mutation conferring protection against malaria, occurs in areas where malaria was prevalent.

That development at the same pace and in the same areas with the same mutations among all groups, and the same mutations becoming widespread in all groups is contradicted by evolutionary precepts is meaningless as we do have our postulated mythology, which takes precedence over overrated scientific findings.

How long will this country continue to play "Let's Pretend," and attempt to incorporate blacks and other minorities into the mainstream on a proportionate basis in all activities. Or could "school dropouts," and community dependency and malfunction be attributable to intrinsic factors, which should be addressed, and efforts made to enable blacks with ability to maximize their accomplishments by providing them with tools to enable them to transcend the stultifying environment of "the ghetto?"

Election of blacks will not endow the black community generally with capabilities. We should chose our leaders based on the reality of what they are, and not expect magical transformation of communities. The frustration of blacks because of their inability to prosper proportionately in a technical-scientific society is understandable, but not remediable by maintaining a pretense that this lack of accomplishment is due to outside forces rather than theinherent limitations of the community itself.

Unfortunately, most black politicians are committed racists exploiting black anger by maintaining a litany of charges of discrimination against and victimization of blacks. Mrs. Obama declared that she would always favor blacks. Mr. Obama condemned a white policeman without information about a situation in a situation involving a black. The New Black Panthers were not held to an account many think they should have been by Attorney General Holder in a voter intimidation allegation situation. The country is not benefited generally by policies directed bettering the situation of a maladept dependent and disruptive underclass at the expense of the remainder of the citizenry. Black politicians generally favor policies that address problems of the underclass and give "solutions" to those problems priority.

I'm a Massachusetts voter and I don't particularly like Deval Patrick or, right now, the President; however, I will, much to my dismay, be voting in November and I will be voting Democrat. I think the state needs more Republican representation in the statehouse, but every Republican is spouting party line as its healthcare CEO gubernatorial candidate, who earned 1.7 million dollars, floods the air waves. Voting for many Republican candidates in this election is shooting oneself in the foot. It took Republicans and Democrats to get us to the situation we are in, but the public also created it and ignores its own complicity. The Democratic Party would have been wise to present true liberals in this election, not candidates veering right. As a state, Mass. is in better condition than most, with a better safety net for its workers and lower unemployment. I am out of work, but I'm not crazy; it would be foolish to change leadership now.